The sequence, which began early this year, involved the abrupt removal of the US ambassador to Ukraine, the circumvention of senior officials on the National Security Council, and the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid administered by the Defence and State departments.
As those worries intensified, some senior officials worked behind the scenes to hold off a Trump meeting or call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky out of concern that Mr Trump would use the conversation to press Kiev for damaging information on his potential rival in the 2020 race, former vice president Joe Biden, and Mr Biden’s son, Hunter.
Though the whistleblower report focuses on the Trump-Zelensky call, officials familiar with its contents said that it includes references to other developments tied to the president, including efforts by Mr Giuliani to insert himself into US-Ukrainian relations. US officials described an atmosphere of intense pressure inside the NSC and other departments since the existence of the whistleblower complaint became known, with some officials facing suspicion that they had a hand either in the complaint or in relaying damaging information to the whistleblower, whose identity has not been revealed and who is entitled to legal protection.
Mr Mulvaney has agitated for foreign aid to be cut universally but has also stayed away from meetings with Mr Giuliani and the US president, officials said. The former New York mayor appears to have seen Mr Zelensky, a political neophyte elected president of Ukraine in April and sworn in in May, as a potential ally on two political fronts – punishing those Mr Giuliani suspected of playing a role in exposing the Ukraine-related corruption of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and delivering political ammunition against Mr Biden.
“She should be part of the investigation as part of the collusion,” Mr Giuliani said in a recent interview with The Washington Post, adding that “she is now working for Soros.” In late March, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr amplified this campaign with a tweet calling for the removal of “Obama’s US Ambassador.”
In a 19 May interview on Fox News, Mr Trump recited repeatedly disproved allegations that then-vice president Joe Biden had coerced Ukraine to drop an investigation into the owner of an energy company, Burisma, for which Mr Biden’s son, Hunter was a board member.
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Thanks for this article from the Washington Post. Its the most informative article I've read yet.
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